The US midterm elections 2018, in pictures

A three-term House member and onetime member of a punk rock band, O'Rourke was virtually unknown outside his Texas-Mexico border hometown of El Paso before announcing in March 2017 that he was taking on a seemingly unwinnable race against Cruz. A Democrat hasn't won a Texas Senate seat since 1988. But O'Rourke visited all 254 Texas counties and often drew larger-than-expected crowds, even in fiercely conservative areas.